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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: gcc and ports
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 21:19:47 GMT
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- Message-ID: <824159987snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- References: <4fjc5j$812@berlin.infomatch.com>
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- In article <4fjc5j$812@berlin.infomatch.com>
- aamaral@infomatch.com "Anselmo Amaral" writes:
-
- >Hello I have a siomple question for you all...
- >
- >How do you write data directly to the ports? Is there a special .h file
- >to include or something and what is the file and the command that will
- >allow me to read and write directly to the ports? I am using linux on a
- >pentium if that has anyhting to do with it!
-
- In Unix user programs simply aren't allowed to write to ports. You need to
- use a kernel device driver. Try comp.unix.programmer or comp.unix.linux.*
- for more information.
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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